With a view to winter period approach, which makes difficult the access to geophysical stations, the GNTI conducts preventive works to increase the stations operation reliability. At two GPS stations (KAZA and SEL2) new gel batteries of СГГН 100-12 type, produced in St. Petersburg, have been installed. Unfortunately, by contrast with previous years, the supplies with batteries of this kind in Bishkek have greatly decreased. Accumulators of AGM type (Sznajder 6CT) proved to be unreliable in operation. Because of self-discharge at the energy supply absence, they get out of order irrevocable. Gel batteries are much better in this respect.

GNTI staff members who service the equipment – Leading engineers Sergei Konovalov and Ryslan Dudinskih.

In August of this year, the power supply system at the OSHK station (Osh city, Kyrgyzstan) on Soulaiman-Too Mount was upgraded. On completion of the project of Universities of Montana and Colorado states in 2008-2011 under the grant of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Subaward 5710002361, "Activities of the GPS network in Kyrgyzstan, maintained by the Research Station of the Russian Academy of Science in Bishkek (RS RAS), the GPS station was kindly left in Kyrgyzstan at the disposal of RS RAS staff to continue the space geodesy research.

The OSHK station is important for the accuracy of GPS data processing, as the most remote stationary one in the south-west direction. In early November 2017 this station is functioning with normal hardware parameters.